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Goodman

in Illinois

There are 2,132 people with the last name "Goodman" in Illinois.

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Ranking in Illinois

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Goodman 424
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  1. is 420th most common Joseph
  2. is 421st most common Maldonado
  3. is 422nd most common Thornton
  4. is 423rd most common Ayala
  5. is 424th most common Goodman
  6. is 425th most common Campos
  7. is 426th most common Velazquez
  8. is 427th most common Griffith
  9. is 428th most common Yates

Similar Names and Nicknames

Goodwin, Good, Goode, Goodrich, Goodson, Gooden, Gooding, Goodin, Goodall, Goodell

Most Common First Names for Goodman

Robert, David, James, John, Michael, Richard, William, Jennifer, Brian, Daniel

Meaning & History

English: status name from Middle English gode ‘good’ + man ‘man’, in part from use as a term for the master of a household. In Scotland the term denoted a landowner who held his land not directly from the crown but from a feudal vassal of the king.

English: from the Middle English personal name Godeman, Old English Gōdmann, composed of the elements gōd ‘good’ or god ‘god’ + mann ‘man’.

English: from the Old English personal name Gūðmund, composed of the elements gūð ‘battle’ + mund ‘protection’, or the Old Norse cognate Guðmundr.

Americanized form of Jewish Gutman or German Gutmann.

FOREBEARS This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. Richard Goodman was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.

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